Thanks! Miki also uploaded cute selfies with Kanako and Mao as well in her Instagram!
Good luck to her, to them, as well as Nobu.
Hope to see them skate in shows, but I doubt any show will be coming to Britain......

Lovely photo! Thanks for linking to it. My heartfelt thanks also to these three fine skaters, who all gave us such enjoyment during their careers. Miki and Akiko especially are symbols of persistence and resilience, which along with their wonderful skating gave me great inspiration. I hope these three continue skating in shows so we can see more of them, but whatever they decide to do, I wish them the best.

if you pay close attention to carolina's long program at the world championships this year, as she's going around the corner to set up her triple lutz, you can see miki at the top of the screen mimicking carolina's arm movements to bolero. this really rubbed me the wrong way. thoughts?

if you pay close attention to carolina's long program at the world championships this year, as she's going around the corner to set up her triple lutz, you can see miki at the top of the screen mimicking carolina's arm movements to bolero. this really rubbed me the wrong way. thoughts?

I noticed it too but I thought it was more out of admiration, not mockery.
If Caro has a retirement party we are so going, right?

Sometimes when I'm watching a dancer or a skater, I get so caught up in the spell that I realize I'm imitating the movements, at least the arm gestures. It's not mockery at all but a kind of deep participation. I wonder whether that is what was happening to Miki at that moment. After all, by that time in the season, the movements might even be familiar to Miki, if she'd watched the Grand Prix and the Olympics.

Sometimes when I'm watching a dancer or a skater, I get so caught up in the spell that I realize I'm imitating the movements, at least the arm gestures. It's not mockery at all but a kind of deep participation. I wonder whether that is what was happening to Miki at that moment. After all, by that time in the season, the movements might even be familiar to Miki, if she'd watched the Grand Prix and the Olympics.

Brian Orser is the king or "skating the program with the skater" from behind the boards.